"Sir! You can't go in there, sir!"

Two adventurers blocked the path of Solalin and the other church warriors, while behind the adventurers was the dazzling fluorescent Mushroom Forest.

They were hired to lead these church members, but the mission never mentioned the final destination was restarting life!

Breaking into the fifth layer of the Mushroom Forest?

What a joke, they'd never heard of anyone who went in and came back out!

To them, the beautiful Mushroom Forest ahead was not much different from Death God's home.

If you want to die, why not just find a rope instead of dragging the two of us along?

"Sir, if you insist on going in, we'll have to abandon this commission here."

Seeing the two adventurers so resistant, Mein turned to Solalin, "What do we do?"

"Listen to them." Solalin, with her right eye glowing with a silver arc, did not object.

Seeing the church members not insisting on entering, the two adventurers breathed a sigh of relief.

Mein looked at Solalin, puzzled that she agreed so readily, which was somewhat contrary to his impression of her way of acting.

[Realm of Truth]

The world was divided into countless patches of colors on the retina, a capability that distinguishes the traces of all things.

The black of vampire undead, the pale yellow or milky white of humans, the light green of elves, the brown of dwarves, each type of demon had its own color...

Though there may be individual differences, and some peculiar life forms have their unique colors.

But Solalin had never seen a color like what she saw after entering the Underground City—the color of Chaos.

In the sticky veins of the fungal mat, countless colors churned chaotically, blending into these peculiar patches of color.

She did not know what this color represented, but it felt very oppressive to her.

What frightened her even more was that from the moment she entered the Underground City, all the mycelium and Puki were the same "Chaos" color under her [Realm of Truth].

Generally, even the same kind of demon would have slight differences between individuals, not like this uniform color.

She wasn't sure if it was the Chaos color itself or if all the mushrooms in the entire Underground City were a single entity?

Judging from the information gathered, the latter seemed more likely.

Entering the Underground City felt like entering the belly of a giant beast, and the feeling was undeniably heart-wrenching.

However, her duty compelled her to personally come down to confirm the Demon's activities after the other squads didn't respond.

So when the two adventurers discouraged her from entering the Mushroom Forest, which appeared completely chaotic to her, she took their advice and agreed.

"Let's go check the next layer," Solalin said expressionlessly.

She no longer hoped to find that Demon here, intending to write a report about the Purple Crystal Dungeon to the Bishop after finishing this task.

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Lin Jun was satisfied watching the church warriors, led by the adventurers, bypassing the Mushroom Forest and the Swamp Area, entirely unaware that this team leader named Solalin had planned to report him.

With external affairs done, it was time to handle internal affairs.

This is about you—Yellow-covered Book!

In the Mushroom Forest, Puki fiercely tossed the Yellow-covered Book onto the ground, and around them were Xiao Hai, who had just been woken up with dissatisfaction, and Norris, who was temporarily released for a day from the Slime Prison to act as a translator.

[Sir, I've been good in the secret room, why bring me out now?]

The Holy Scripture, realizing something, tried its best to appear compliant, but Lin Jun knew its nature, and pretending wouldn't help.

Uttering a string of statistics at the Yellow-covered Book:

"Two vampire attacks, 267 various Puki lost, fungal mat damage over a quarter of the fifth layer, seven mushroom trees collapsed.

And just to contain you, constantly need four elite Puki and thirty regular Puki for supervision.

Not to mention this time it attracted the Bright Church members.

I have a question; wouldn't it be more cost-effective to just 'lay you off'?"

Kneeling before the Yellow-covered Book, Norris obediently repeated the boss's words. He would later need to relay what the Yellow-covered Book said into his mind back to the boss.

The boss said, once done here, he could take a day off, which he'd spend sleeping—endlessly splitting Slimes every two hours was too exhausting...

[Um... What does 'layoff' mean?]

Puki swiped its tentacle under the mushroom cap, the Yellow-covered Book instantly understood.

[Boss, I'm a loyal part of the Mushroom Garden too!]

[No need for supervision, just like before, throw me randomly into a Puki stone hutch and I'll be fine]

[I love the Mushroom Garden, if anyone dares to steal me, I'll charm them and run back to the Mushroom Forest!]

[Why lay off?]

If the Yellow-covered Book knew about emoji, it might have used a cute face now.

Just by reading those words, Norris was wondering if the boss was a bit heartless?

"Okay, let me give you a chance. Tell me what value you have, what can you bring to the Mushroom Garden?"

[?]

What value?

The Yellow-covered Book, as the Holy Scripture, people either covet or fear it, never did it consider this!

Seeing the Yellow-covered Book not saying anything for a long time, Puki waved a tentacle, calling Xiao Hai over.

[I, I can warn you! I can detect outsiders from afar!]

"How far?"

[From here I can sense even inside the stairway!]

That's about a third of a five-layer size, quite far indeed, at least further than the adventurers' reconnaissance skills.

However—

"So basically useless then..."

[???]

Xiao Hai's paws were already reaching up.

[I, I can help improve attributes!]

"Enhancing until they go crazy?"

[I can help control others!]

Lin Jun considered his [Fusion Parasite] skill and let Xiao Hai lift the Yellow-covered Book...

The translating Norris was already trembling, realizing he was sympathizing with a terrifying wicked book?

And the boss seemed... unimpressed with these capabilities?

[No, how come none of my functions are workable!?]

"Feels like they're all not very useful, honestly leaving you to gather dust wasn't an issue, but you've caused too much trouble now, so it's goodbye."

[Can't you just throw me out?]

"Oh? Then you'd blab about everything in the Mushroom Garden?"

[The Dragon Man can only tear off my pages, not damage the whole book. Doing so only hurts me without any meaning!]

"We can give it a try, it doesn't cost anything, and it doesn't hurt me, Xiao Hai—"

As he felt the dragon scale scraping across the pages, the Yellow-covered Book suddenly laughed wildly in danger.

[Hahaha]

Rip—

A page was torn off by Xiao Hai and quickly turned to ash.

[Ah it hurts, it hurts]

[You're asking me why I'm laughing!]

Rip—

[Ahh, oww oww oww]

[Stop, stop, I'll tell, I'll tell]

Lin Jun finally had Xiao Hai pause, curious about any last words from the book.

[The Purple Crystal Dungeon is in peril]

With Xiao Hai's claws about to reach again, the Yellow-covered Book hurriedly spilled the remaining half of its words.

[Hasn't the dungeon already had long-term rifts?]

[This is a serious omen, if nothing is done your Mushroom Garden could be in danger!]

Oh?

Could there be something substantial?

Unexpectedly invested, Lin Jun found interest; he hadn't mentioned anything to the Yellow-covered Book about the Slime and the rifts, unless its perception far exceeded what it initially claimed, being capable of sensing a six-layer deep rift across levels.

Puki placed the Yellow-covered Book back on the ground, having taken it from obedient Xiao Hai's claws.

"Go on, I'm listening."

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